G4 



AXABANTlDiE. 



13. ANABAS MURIEL 



Ctenopoma petherici, part., G-unth. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. 1864, p. 211, and 



Petherick's Trav. ii. p. 208 (1869). 

 Anabas ■petherici, Pellegr. Mem. Soc. Zool, France, xvii. 1905, p. 185. 

 Anabas muriei, Bouleng. Ann. & Mag. N. H. (7) xviii. 1906, p. 348, and Fish. 



Nile, p. 444, pi. lxxxiii. fig. 2 (1907). 



Depth of body equal to length of head, 2f to 3 times in total length. 

 Snout rounded, a little shorter than eye, which is 3j to 4-g- times in 

 length of head and 1 to 1J times in interorbital width ; maxillary 

 extending to below anterior fourth or third of eye ; palatine teeth 

 present; prseorbital and prseoperculum entire; interoperculum often 



Fig. 39. 



Anabas muriei. 

 Type (F. N.). 



entire ; suboperculum finely serrated ; operculum with two groups of 

 strong sense, with a deep notch between them. 5 or 6 very short gill- 

 rakers on lower part of anterior arch. Dorsal XIV-XVI 8-10 ; spines 

 subequal from the fifth or sixth, about f length of head ; longest soft 

 ravs about f length of head. Anal IX-XI 8-10, similar to dorsal. 



Pectoral f to f length of head. 



little beyond. Caudal rounded 



peduncle. Scales rugose and strongly ctenoid, 27-28 



Ventral reaching origin of anal or a 

 A mere indication of a caudal 



3 



9-10 ' 



lateral 



lines 



13-16 

 10-13- 



Olive, with numerous small black spots ; a blackish ocellar 

 spot edged with yellowish at the root of, and partly upon, the caudal 

 fin. 



Total length 80 millim. 

 White Nile, Bahr-el-Gebel, Lake Victoria. 

 1-2. Types. Kaka, White Nile. 



23. Skel. 



Ghnrb-el-Aish, White Nile. 



L. Loat, Esq. (C). 



